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[sutz]

Mariners @ Padres KIRO Radio at 12 today

Seattle Sports on 710 AM

Seattle's Sports Station

tuner.bonneville.com

 

[joeosprey]

Good luck to the 2025 cheap ass no chance mariners

 

[Sperrydogg]

Good luck to the 2025 cheap ass no chance mariners

This is the beginning of the real future. It only took a decade for Dipoto to get to the beginning, remember way back when we used to have Robinson cano?

 

[bileever]

I think fan belief in the Mariners is at an all-time low. Even with my low expectations, I was shocked at how little the Mariners did in the off-season.

So of course, this is the year they will win the World Series.

As frustrated as I am about the lack of spending, I saw that Fangraphs has ranked the Mariners as the 4th best team in the American League this year. Crazy.

 

[Hawkinaz]

I think fan belief in the Mariners is at an all-time low. Even with my low expectations, I was shocked at how little the Mariners did in the off-season.

So of course, this is the year they will win the World Series.

As frustrated as I am about the lack of spending, I saw that Fangraphs has ranked the Mariners as the 4th best team in the American League this year. Crazy.

Your comment reminds me of when the Chicago Tribune owned the Cubs they really didn’t care that much about team success they ran it like a business and knew people would still go to the games. North Chicago loves the Cubs

 

[NoGain]

I'll look at box scores and follow the standings. If they're truly in it at the all-star break, I'll start paying more attention. I'll ramp it up if it looks like they're going to win the division in late August/September. I'll watch all the playoff games if they make it in. I won't attend a single game live and in person.

What can I say? They've turned me into a fair weather, bandwagon fan.

 

[IndyHawk]

Your comment reminds me of when the Chicago Tribune owned the Cubs they really didn’t care that much about team success they ran it like a business and knew people would still go to the games. North Chicago loves the Cubs

Clark and Addison always has the heart of Chicago no matter who owns them.

 

[IndyHawk]

I'll look at box scores and follow the standings. If they're truly in it at the all-star break, I'll start paying more attention. I'll ramp it up if it looks like they're going to win the division in late August/September. I'll watch all the playoff games if they make it in. I won't attend a single game live and in person.

What can I say? They've turned me into a fair weather, bandwagon fan.

Been a fan for many years, a lot of you have not seen a really bad team.
As a kid, I was just happy we had a team and baseball was fun.

 

[NoGain]

Been a fan for many years, a lot of you have not seen a really bad team.
As a kid, I was just happy we had a team and baseball was fun.

I grew up a die-hard Cubs fan, went to and watched more games than I can count. Knew everything about the team. When I moved out here for good, I switched allegiances eventually to the M's. I was a big fan during the Griffey, Buhner, Martinez, Johnson years and beyond, even split season ticket packages for a few years.

The M's year after year after year of incompetence eventually got to me. I've seen plenty of bad teams as a loyal baseball fan of my teams since I was a kid. I just got too old to put up with cheapness, incompetence, and an ownership that didn't want the team to win as much as I did.

 

[Crizilla]

Lazaro in the line up today

 

[IndyHawk]

I grew up a die-hard Cubs fan, went to and watched more games than I can count. Knew everything about the team. When I moved out here for good, I switched allegiances eventually to the M's. I was a big fan during the Griffey, Buhner, Martinez, Johnson years and beyond, even split season ticket packages for a few years.

The M's year after year after year of incompetence eventually got to me. I've seen plenty of bad teams as a loyal baseball fan of my teams since I was a kid. I just got too old to put up with cheapness, incompetence, and an ownership that didn't want the team to win as much as I did.

It's funny we are like reverse experiences..
I grew up an Ms fan and moved to South Bend where WGN and the Cubs
grew on me.. I have been to Wrigley a few times and consider the Cubs my
NL team.
I get your frustration and not going to tell you how to fan, I just know $$$ wise
it's hard to spend up to the Yankees and Dodgers to compete on that level.

 

[NoGain]

It's funny we are like reverse experiences..
I grew up an Ms fan and moved to South Bend where WGN and the Cubs
grew on me.. I have been to Wrigley a few times and consider the Cubs my
NL team.
I get your frustration and not going to tell you how to fan, I just know $$$ wise
it's hard to spend up to the Yankees and Dodgers to compete on that level.

I get what you're saying. We can't compete with the tippy-top of payroll teams. That's unrealistic. But the thing is, we've GOT the staff to be a dangerous playoff team now if we'd just have added a couple of decent bats while our staff is still a reasonably priced one. But I'm just speaking what everybody already knows about this team and its ownership and general management.

 

[Sperrydogg]

Lazaro in the line up today

He was up during that circus base running play

 

[Crizilla]

Moore and Haniger. Lmao.
Dunn having amazing at bats so far.
Ford with a hit and RBI.

 

[Maulbert]

Been a fan for many years, a lot of you have not seen a really bad team.
As a kid, I was just happy we had a team and baseball was fun.

It's not that they're bad. It's that they're never good. And that's worse. 21 years without even a sniff of the postseason. You almost have to try to suck that long.

 

[Lagartixa]

I think the craziest thing to me is that there are betting odds for preseason (spring-training) baseball games.

 

[Maulbert]

I think the craziest thing to me is that there are betting odds for preseason (spring-training) baseball games.

Addiction sucks.

 

[getnasty]

Moore and Haniger. Lmao.
Dunn having amazing at bats so far.
Ford with a hit and RBI.

You must have not seen Fords hit.

 

[Lagartixa]

I think the craziest thing to me is that there are betting odds for preseason (spring-training) baseball games.

I just wanted to add an image here. I went and captured this image on ESPN's web site just now - on February 23



It's the "CLE -135" that I find bizarre.

 

[Crizilla]

Doesn't that mean if you put down 135 and Cleveland wins you win extra 100 bucks? Pretty sure spring training betting are limited but the money line bets are the same still